After a few words, Li Liting and Li Liyuan led their people to two different directions.
Su Chenyu and Li Liyanqing stood in the pavilion, watching them leave, their hearts tinged with a faint sadness of parting: "Let's go back too."
Li Liyanqing held Su Chenyu's hand and said, "It's a good thing for everyone if Second Uncle can come to his senses this time."
"Yes." Su Chenyu smiled, "Now, the mansion can finally be quiet."
The two had just returned to the capital when they faintly heard the dull sound of the funeral bell in the palace. Su Chenyu guessed in her heart, the funeral bell rang at this time, could it be that the Queen Mother had passed away?
Sure enough, as soon as the two entered the palace, the palace maids came to report the death of the empress dowager. The empress dowager had passed away, and everyone was ordered to enter the palace to hold the funeral.
Su Chenyu and Li Li Yanqing wasted no time, changed into mourning clothes and entered the palace.
The mourning hall in the Queen Mother's Palace had been set up, but the atmosphere in the whole hall was strange and heavy. The coffin in the hall did not even contain the Queen Mother's body.
As soon as the two entered the room, Cai Quan took them into the inner hall. The empress dowager was still lying on the couch and had not yet changed into her birthday clothes. Dean Zhao and Zhao Zihang stood on one side, while Deng Hailuan was kneeling on the ground. Emperor Jing of Wei sat on a chair, and the imperial concubine stood beside him, seemingly comforting her with something.
"Your son greets His Majesty." Su Chenyu and Li Li Yanqing stepped forward first to pay their respects.
The Imperial Concubine was worried that Su Chenyu didn't know the current situation and might say something wrong, so she took the initiative to speak: "Princess Fengyi, please come and persuade the Emperor."
"What happened to Father?"
"The Queen Mother passed away. I came here specially to watch the palace servants change the Queen Mother's birthday clothes. I didn't expect to see scars all over her body. These were caused by her being abused before. When the Emperor learned of this, he specially summoned two Zhao imperial doctors to investigate the cause of the Queen Mother's death."
At this point, the Imperial Concubine sighed, "The two Imperial Doctors Zhao found that the Empress Dowager died of fright, but it was also because she did not recuperate properly and was abused. However, the palace maids who serve the Empress Dowager were all selected by me personally, and they would never dare to do such a thing. Instead, I asked Imperial Doctor Deng, but he could not answer a single word."
Hearing this, Deng Hailuan was so frightened that he trembled all over. Seeing him like this, Emperor Jing of Wei could not help but think that it was he who had murdered the Queen Mother. In anger, he threw a cup of tea at Deng Hailuan and said, "Deng Hailuan, the Queen Mother usually values you the most. You can actually do such a thing. You are really a wolf and a dog."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life..." At this time, Deng Hailuan could only beg for mercy.
"How badly did you inflict upon the Queen Mother that she died of fright?" Emperor Jing of Wei angrily slammed the table and questioned.
Deng Hailuan could not answer, but Su Chenyu's eyes fell on the Queen Mother's face. She still opened her eyes wide. Even in the last moment before her death, she was still immersed in fear, with deep fear in her eyes. She was afraid because of the sins she had committed in the past!
It’s good to die like this, otherwise how can those people killed by her rest in peace?
And people like the Queen Mother should not have peace before or after her death.
"Father, now that things have come to this, we can only hold a funeral for the Queen Mother first. Otherwise, if the news gets out, the Su royal family will probably become a laughing stock."
The Queen Mother of a country was tortured and frightened to death by a small imperial physician. Emperor Jing of Wei could not tolerate such news: "Imperial Physician Deng was devoted to serving the Queen Mother. I will save his loyalty to her and allow him to be buried with her!"
"Your Majesty..." Deng Hailuan naturally didn't want to die, but just as he shouted out two words, he was dragged off the bed by two palace servants and could not utter another word.
Su Chenyu watched all this indifferently. Deng Hailuan had done so many things for the Queen Mother, how could he not die with her?
This is the most suitable ending for Deng Hailuan!
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